Improvement in combined knife and fork



@anni @fr #OQ ARTHUR W. COX.' OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 88,370, dated March 3Q, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN COILBINBD KNIFE AND ,FORK

To all whom it may zimmern:

Be it known that LARTHURW. Cox, of Meiden, in the county oi' Middesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented @new and improved Combined Knife and Fork; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clerngand exact description thereof, which will ena,- ble others skilled in the nrt to make und use the same, reference being. had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide e oombined knife and fork, better adapted for the double use than any now made.

Figure i represents a. plan view of the backof my improved implement, and

Figures@ and 3 represent transverse sections.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding I also make the bifurcations between the outer tines, and those next thereto,of less depth than the central bifxrcation, or those of the common fork, asrepresenfed at This arrangement greatly strengthens the outer tines, and thereby enables them to perform ille functions of knives without bending under the great pressure it is sometimes necessary to impart to them.

The combined knives and forks, as heretofore oon-y structed, have generally proved of little use as knives, in consequence of the said bifurcations being extended to the depth usually adapted for forks.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim es new, and desire to secure by Lette: 1 Patent- The improved combined knife und fork, having the plane upper surface l, concave under snrices c, and the slots between the outer tines and those maoeut thereto shortened, whereby they are strengthened, all substantially us specified.

ARTHUR W. COX.

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